1. OBSERVATION PARTY BOUND FOR COMMUNIST CHINA 2. STUDENTS BOUND FOR COMMUNIST CHINA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000250007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 17, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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7'e Overseas Chinese General Association (00GA) for all of Indonesia is
organizing an Observation Party to go to Communist China to study actual
conditions there and to consolidate the relationship between Overseas
Chinese and their home country.
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2. The Observation Party from Sumatra of 18 Chinese is being selected by
YAP fie Tong*, who will be a rtenber of the group. The group will travel
as tourists and it is anticiratod that the trip will cost each person
B S,GOO.... The date of departure has not yet been set.
yI.ve Chinese girls from T?Tedan are going to China to study. Among this
group are:
ONG Lan Iiiong (P4olly 01,7G )I, the daughter of OPNG Chin Liang
The daughter of CTTATT Sing Chyo (sic)
The daughter of YAP Ee Tong
The first two left 12 June on the SS WILTT.ELV RUMS for Djakarta, where they
will wait for the other three menbers of the party. They will proeeod to
China on the SS TJILATTGT'A of the Java China Steamship Line.***
J";., OTTG Lan FTiong will attend Saint John's University in Shanghai. The other
four are -going to Peiping.
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September 150, reported that YAP Eo Tong
was the Wahl_sher of the Democratic Daily News. lie has also been reported
to be a nember of the OCGA and of the China Democratic League.
mnnist embassy in Djakarta was of 'or-Ing Chinese in Semarang an opportu-
nity to visit China. The ribasry was to make travel arrangerionts and
obtain the necessary visas. The tours were scheduled to-last three or
Parch 1951, noted that tt,e Chinese Com-
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four rontha, at a cost of It 8,000 to each traveler. It was hoped that
the travelers world return to Indonesia as supnortera of the People's
Itemzblic of China.. March 1951, reported that the Chung Ilua
Chung Hui in Djakarta-had received a report from its Semarang branch
t' at a committee had been formed there under the chairmanship of the
in Yin She (New Friends Society) to make errangoi ents for a tour of
Communist China. Persons to make the tour were to be drawn from conmsercial9
industrial and academic circles. The Chung Ifua Chung Mai planned to send
2-5 representatives on the tour which waz to last three months. Committees
smiler to that in Semarang were to be -set uD in Djakarta and Surnbava.
An Indonesian broadcast -f`rom Djakarta on 16 Juno 1951, reported that
a 30-;r. t indoncaian cu7 tt ral. delegation gaol d leave for Peiping early
in July, In response to an invitation from the All-China League9 for
a stay of about three months.
Cormxnt. This probably should read SS TJITALENGKA of the Royal
Interocean Line.
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